American Naturalist

Article	Citations
Understanding the Role of Naive Learners in Cultural Change	282
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Avian Predators Avoid Attacking Fly-Mimicking Beetles: A Field Experiment on Evasive Mimicry Using Artificial Prey	40
Georgii F. Gause’s The Struggle for Existence and the Integration of Natural History and Mathematical Models	36
Long-Term Decrease in Coloration: A Consequence of Climate Change?	36
Soilscapes of Mortality Risk Suggest a Goldilocks Effect for Overwintering Ectotherms	31
Estimating Density Dependence, Environmental Variance, and Long-Term Selection on a Stage-Structured Life History	29
Acquired Phototrophy as an Evolutionary Path to Mixotrophy	28
Pyrophilic Plants Respond to Postfire Soil Conditions in a Frequently Burned Longleaf Pine Savanna	27
When does the probability of evolutionary rescue increase with the strength of selection despite a potential demographic cost?	26
Learning from Our Study Organisms about Sexual Selection: Lessons from the Ocellated Wrasse	25
Front and Back Matter	24
Replicated Functional Evolution in Cichlid Adaptive Radiations	24
Milking It: Repeated Postweaning Suckling Events in Galápagos Sea Lions ( Zalophus wollebaeki )	23
Inbreeding and Competitor’s Genetic Relatedness Affect Dynamic Male Color Ornament Expression in a Cichlid Fish	23
Using Computational Simulations to Model Deleterious Variation and Genetic Load in Natural Populations	23
Effects of Plasticity on Elevational Range Size and Species Richness	22
Front and Back Matter	21
Gut Microbiota Uniqueness Is Associated with Lake Size, a Proxy for Diet Diversity, in Stickleback Fish	20
The Origin of Asexual Brine Shrimps	20
Front and Back Matter	20
Higher Mortality Is Not a Universal Cost of Dispersal: A Case Study in African Wild Dogs	20

Eavesdropping Micropredators as Dynamic Limiters of Sexual Signal Elaboration and Intrasexual Competition	20
Metabolic Rate Diversity Shapes Group Performance in Honeybees	19
Evolutionary Epidemiology Consequences of Trait-Dependent Control of Heterogeneous Parasites	19
Linking genomic offset statistics to the shape of selection gradients	19
What’s Gender Got to Do with It? Dismantling the Human Hierarchies in Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Toxicology for Scientific and Social Progress	19
Extreme High-Elevation Mammal Surveys Reveal Unexpectedly High Upper Range Limits of Andean Mice	19
Resource Variation Within and Between Patches: Where Exploitation Competition, Local Adaptation, and Kin Selection Meet	18
Dynamic Trait Distribution as a Source for Shifts in Interaction Strength and Population Density	18
A Mechanistically Integrated Model of Exploitative and Interference Competition over a Single Resource Produces Widespread Coexistence	18
Repeated Divergence in Opsin Gene Expression Mirrors Photic Habitat Changes in Rapidly Evolving Crater Lake Cichlid Fishes	17
Rethinking tipping points in spatial ecosystems	17
Seasonal Alternation of Putative Camouflage Wing Morphs of the American Snout Butterfly (Libytheana carinenta)	17
Bending the Course of Evolution: How Mutualistic Interactions Affect Macroevolutionary Dynamics of Diversification in Mimetic Ithomiini Butterflies	16
Front and Back Matter	16
From Fear to Feast: Rattlesnakes Navigate the Landscape of Fear to Optimize Foraging	16
Sex-Specific Associations between Social Behavior, Its Predictability, and Fitness in a Wild Lizard	16
Who Keeps the House after Divorcing? Partner and Nest Fidelity in the Long-Lived Alpine Swift	16
Natural Selection after Severe Winter Favors Larger and Duller Bluebirds	15
Familia, Comunidad y Maestros: How I Became a Latina Science Professor	15
Strain Diversity and Spatial Distribution Are Linked to Epidemic Dynamics in Host Populations	15
Detecting Nonadditive Biotic Interactions and Assessing Their Biological Relevance among Temperate Rainforest Trees	15
Front and Back Matter	15
Intraspecific Reaction Norm Variation Controls the Eco-Evolutionary Consequences of Environmental Change	15
Stochasticity Leads to Coexistence of Generalists and Specialists in Assembling Mutualistic Communities	14
Pollinator and Flower Morphology Interact to Affect Pollen Receipt	14
Anisogamy Does Not Always Promote the Evolution of Mating Competition Traits in Males	14
Deconstructing the morphological basis of ecogeographic variation in the hand-wing index, a widely used proxy for avian mobility, in the Yellow Warbler (Setophaga petechia)	14
Longevity hinders evolutionary rescue through slower growth but not necessarily slower adaptation	14
Natural Selection of Synthetic Gene Drives for Population Suppression Can Favor an Intermediate Strength of Drive	14
Intransitive Stability Collapses Under the Influence of Dominant Competitors	13
Front and Back Matter	13
Deriving Population Scaling Rules from Individual-Level Metabolism and Life History Traits	13
The Impact of Coinfection Dynamics on Host Competition and Coexistence	13
2023 American Society of Naturalists Awards	13
The Extension of Foundress Life Span and the Evolution of Eusociality in the Hymenoptera	13
Effects of Phylogeny on Coexistence in Model Communities	13
A Cryptic Sex-Linked Locus Revealed by the Elimination of a Master Sex-Determining Locus in Medaka Fish	13
Habitat Heterogeneity, Environmental Feedbacks, and Species Coexistence across Timescales	13
The Contributions of Microbial Interactions to Abrupt Ecosystem Changes during the Late Quaternary	12
Aquatic Soundscape Recordings Reveal Diverse Vocalizations and Nocturnal Activity of an Endangered Frog	12
Corrigendum	12
Best Publishing Practices and Open Access Options at The American Naturalist	12
Plant Phenotypes as Distributions: Johannsen’s Beans Revisited	12
Female Reproductive Fluid Increases the Opportunities for Postmating Sexual Selection by Prolonging the Egg Fertilization Window	12
Sex Allocation and Reproductive Success in a Perennial Hermaphroditic Herb: Both Size and Timing Matter	12
Hazardous Loss of Genetic Diversity through Selective Sweeps in Asexual Populations	12
Do Interactions among Microbial Symbionts Cause Selection for Greater Pathogen Virulence?	12
The Evolution of Mate Attachment	12
Periodical Cicada Emergences Affect Masting Behavior of Oaks	12
Social Familiarity and Spatially Variable Environments Independently Determine Reproductive Fitness in a Wild Bird	12

Adaptive Maternal Effects Shape Offspring Phenotype and Survival in Natal Environments	12
Context-Dependent Benefits of Aphids for Bacteria in the Phyllosphere	12
Quantifying Phylogenetic and Nonphylogenetic Patterns in the Richness, Frequency, and Identity of Links in a Herbivore-Parasitoid Interaction Network	12
Physiological Color Change in the Neotropical Tree Frog ( Pithecopus hypochondrialis ) as a Potential Mechanism of Nocturnal Camouflage	12
Evolutionary Origins and Patterns of Diversification in Animal Brood Parasitism	12
Host Energetics Explain Variation in Parasite Productivity across Hosts and Ecosystems	12
Mate Sampling Behavior Determines the Density Dependence of Sexual Selection	12
The Demographic Consequences of Adaptation: Evidence from Experimental Evolution	11
Bargain to Be Dominant	11
Population Dynamic Consequences of Context-Dependent Trade-Offs across Life Histories	11
Patterns of Plant Salinity Adaptation Depend on Interactions with Soil Microbes	11
Effects of Parental Care on the Magnitude of Inbreeding Depression: A Meta-Analysis in Fishes	11
How Genotype-by-Environment Interactions Can Maintain Variation in Mutualisms	11
How Important Are Functional and Developmental Constraints on Phenotypic Evolution? An Empirical Test with the Stomatal Anatomy of Flowering Plants	11
Close Kin Dyads Indicate Intergenerational Dispersal and Barriers	11
Host Identity Matters—Up to a Point: The Community Context of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis Transmission	11
The Adaptation Front Equation Explains Innovation-Driven Taxonomic Turnovers and Living Fossilization	11
Front and Back Matter	10
Mate Preferences and Choosiness Are Distinct Components of Mate Choice in Eastern Gray Treefrogs (Hyla versicolor)	10
Quantitative Prediction of Interactions in Bipartite Networks Based on Traits, Abundances, and Phylogeny	10
Sexual Selection Increases Male Behavioral Consistency in Drosophila melanogaster	10
Revisiting the Role of Genetic Variation in Adaptation	10
Testing the Mating System Model of Parasite Complex Life Cycle Evolution Reveals Demographically Driven Mixed Mating	10
The Evolution of Rodent Tail Morphology	10
Mechanistic Models of Trophic Interactions: Opportunities for Species Richness and Challenges for Modern Coexistence Theory	10
Multiyear Time-Shift Study of Bacteria and Phage Dynamics in the Phyllosphere	10
Priority Effects Determine How Dispersal Affects Biodiversity in Seasonal Metacommunities	10
Secretary’s Report, 2023	10
Looking across Scales in Disease Ecology and Evolution	10
Sons Shorten Mother’s Lifespan in Preindustrial Families with a High Level of Infant Mortality	10
Asynchronous Life Histories Generate Uneven Arms Races and Impact the Maintenance of Mutualisms	10
Raptor Perception of Mismatch in Seasonally Polyphenic Prey	10
What Can Evolutionary History Tell Us about the Functioning of Ecological Communities? The ASN Presidential Debate	10
Genome Composition Predicts Physiological Responses to Temperature in Polyploid Salamanders	10
Variation in Avian Predation Pressure as a Driver for the Diversification of Periodical Cicada Broods	9
Evolutionary and Ecological Processes Determining the Properties of the G Matrix	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Individual Quality Drives Life History Variation in a Long-Lived Marine Predator	9
The Evolution of Dependence and Cohesion in Incipient Endosymbioses	9
Predator Group Composition Indirectly Influences Food Web Dynamics through Predator Growth Rates	9
Thermal Costs and Benefits of Replicated Color Evolution in the White Sands Desert Lizard Community	9
Genetic Variation in Male Aggression Is Influenced by Genotype of Prior Social Partners in Drosophila melanogaster	9
Dorsal and Ventral Plumage Coloration Evolve as Distinct Modules with Different Environmental Correlations	9
Resurrecting Historical Observations to Characterize Species-Specific Nesting Traits of Bumblebees	9
Five Decades of Data Yield No Support for Adaptive Biasing of Offspring Sex Ratio in Wild Baboons ( Papio cynocephalus )	9
Strength of Sexual Selection and Sex Roles Vary between Social Groups in a Coral Reef Cardinalfish	9
Spatially Explicit Habitat Selection: Testing Contagion and the Ideal Free Distribution with Culex Mosquitoes	9
Coupled Oscillators in an Agroecosystem: Integrating Direct and Indirect Effects	9
Front and Back Matter	9
Colonial Legacies Influence Biodiversity Lessons: How Past Trade Routes and Power Dynamics Shape Present-Day Scientific Research and Professional Opportunities for Caribbean Scientists	9
Density-by-Diet Interactions during Larval Development Shape Adult Life History Trait Expression and Fitness in a Polyphagous Fly	9
A Test of Haldane’s Rule in Neodiprion Sawflies and Implications for the Evolution of Postzygotic Isolation in Haplodiploids	8
Organisms as Complex Structures Wrapped in a Complex Web of Life	8
No Evidence for Paternal Age Effects on Sons or Daughters When Accounting for Paternal Sperm Storage	8
The Characteristics of Inducible Defenses Influence Predator-Prey Dynamics	8
Investigating Tipping and Its Predictability in Noisy Environments: Evaluating the Impact of Temporal and Species Response Correlation	8
Do Mixed-Species Groups Travel as One? An Investigation on Large African Herbivores Monitored Using Animal-Borne Video Collars	8
Monitoring Demography of Resurrected Populations of Locally Extinct and Extant Species to Investigate Drivers of Species Loss	8
Filial Cannibalism Leads to Chronic Nest Failure of Eastern Hellbender Salamanders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)	8
Seasonality and the Coexistence of Pathogen Strains	8
Host Developmental Stage Effects on Parasite Resistance and Tolerance	8
The Contribution of Mutation to Variation in Temperature-Dependent Sprint Speed in Zebrafish,Danio rerio	8
Frequency-Dependent Hybridization Contributes to Habitat Segregation in Monkeyflowers	8
Long-Term Resilience of Primary Sex Ratios in a Species with Temperature-Dependent Sex Determination after Decades of Climate Warming	8
Assembly, Persistence, and Disassembly Dynamics of Quaternary Caribbean Frugivore Communities	8
Evolution of Plant Niche Construction Traits in Biogeomorphic Landscapes	8
Unraveling Adaptive Evolutionary Divergence at Microgeographic Scales	8
Front and Back Matter	8
The Effects of Foraging Ecology and Allometry on Avian Skull Shape Vary across Levels of Phylogeny	8
Social Learning of Innovations in Dynamic Predator-Prey Systems	8
Vertical Niche Partitioning and the Performance of Mixotrophic Generalists against Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Specialists under Contrasting Light-Nutrient Supply Regimes	8
The Study of Mutualism, Past, Present, and Future	8
Evolutionary Determinants of Nonseasonal Breeding in Wild Chacma Baboons	8
Accelerated Phenology Fails to Buffer Fitness Loss from Delayed Rain Onset in a Clade of Wildflowers	8
Epigenetic Potential and DNA Methylation in an Ongoing House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus ) Range Expansion	8
Multimorph Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics in Structured Populations	8
Better to Divorce than Be Widowed: The Role of Mortality and Environmental Heterogeneity in the Evolution of Divorce	8
Acceptable Loss: Fitness Consequences of Salinity-Induced Cell Death in a Halotolerant Microalga	8
A Variance Partitioning Approach Identifies the Absence of Mate Choice and the Lack of Forced Copulation in the Water Strider Gerris gracilicornis	8

Predicting and Controlling Spillover in Multispecies Disease Transmission Networks: Steady-State Analysis	8
Competitive Displacement and Agonistic Character Displacement, or the Ghost of Interference Competition	8
Rensch’s Rule Is Not Supported by a Mammals-Wide Analysis	8
Polyandry as a Male Strategy? A Game between Aggressive and Tolerant Males, Arbitrated by Females	8
Comparing the Predicted versus Realized Rate of Adaptation of Chamaecrista fasciculata to Climate Change	8
The Mismatch between Range and Niche Limits due to Source-Sink Dynamics Can Be Greater than Species Mean Dispersal Distance	8
The Contributions of Maternal Age Heterogeneity to Variance in Lifetime Reproductive Output	7
Front and Back Matter	7
The Geography of Sexual Conflict: A Synthetic Review	7
Retiring “Cradles” and “Museums” of Biodiversity	7
A Trade-Off between Robustness to Environmental Fluctuations and Speed of Evolution	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Allee Effects and Coexistence	7
Effect of the Seed Bank on Evolutionary Rescue in Small Populations: Univariate and Multivariate Demogenetic Dynamics	7
Impacts of Flowering Density on Pollen Dispersal and Gametic Diversity Are Scale Dependent	7
Mutation and Selection Induce Correlations between Selection Coefficients and Mutation Rates	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Oak Galls Exhibit Ant Dispersal Convergent with Myrmecochorous Seeds	7
New Evidence Suggests No Sex Bias in Herbivory or Plant Defense	7
Partitioning the Apparent Temperature Sensitivity into Within- and Across-Taxa Responses: Revisiting the Difference between Autotrophic and Heterotrophic Protists	7
Schrödinger’s Range-Shifting Cat: How Skewed Temperature Dependence Impacts Persistence with Climate Change	7
Same Colors for Different Functions: Implications for the Evolution of Carotenoid-Based Ornamentation	7
Evolution of threespine stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus) defensive traits following the stocking of brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)	7
Intergenerational Effects of Early-Life Starvation on Life History, Consumption, and Transcriptome of a Holometabolous Insect	7
Hot-dry weather is associated with worse reproductive outcomes regardless of group composition in a long-lived cooperatively breeding bird	7
Secretary’s Report, 2024	7
Front and Back Matter	7
Evidence of Biological Self-Organization in Spatial Patterns of a Common Tropical Alga	7
Secretary’s Report, 2025	7
Color as an Interspecific Badge of Status: A Comparative Test	7
Behavioral Strategies and the Spatial Pattern Formation of Nesting	7
Parameter Sensitivity of Transient Community Dynamics	7
Host-Parasite Coevolution in Continuous Space Leads to Variation in Local Adaptation across Spatial Scales	7
Rapid Body Color Change Provides Lizards with Facultative Crypsis in the Eyes of Their Avian Predators	6
On the Interpretation of the Operation of Natural Selection in Class-Structured Populations	6
Positive Association between Female-Biased Sexual Size Dimorphism and Male-Skewed Operational Sex Ratio in Anurans	6
Null Models for the Opportunity for Selection	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Novel Genomic Insights into Body Size Evolution in Cetaceans and a Resolution of Peto’s Paradox	6
Environmental Fluctuations Promote Host Reward Strategies That Maintain Partner Diversity in Multispecies Mutualisms	6
Morphological and ecological predictors of migration in shorebirds (a phylogenetic perspective)	6
The challenge of genomic forecasting in an era of global change	6
The Ecology of Spider Sociality: A Spatial Model	6
Price Equations for Understanding the Response of Ecosystem Function to Community Change	6
Nutrigonometry I: Using Right-Angle Triangles to Quantify Nutritional Trade-Offs in Performance Landscapes	6
Front and Back Matter	6
In Memoriam	6
Female Audience Shapes the Complexity and Syntax of Male Courtship Displays in a Lek-Mating Bird	6
The Effect of Predator Population Dynamics on Batesian Mimicry Complexes	6
On the Dynamics of Mortality and the Ephemeral Nature of Mammalian Megafauna	6
A Behavioral Syndrome Linking Boldness and Flexibility Facilitates Invasion Success in Sticklebacks	6
The Baldwin Effect Reloaded: Intermediate Levels of Phenotypic Plasticity Favor Evolutionary Rescue	6
Front and Back Matter	6
The Dominance of Coinfecting Parasites’ Indirect Genetic Effects on Host Traits	6
Steep Hierarchies without Skew? Modeling How Ecology and Decision-Making Shape Despotism of Relationships	6
Predicting and Measuring Decision Rules for Social Recognition in a Neotropical Frog	6
2025 Publication Awards	6
A Case for the “Competitive Exclusion–Tolerance Rule” as a General Cause of Species Turnover along Environmental Gradients	6
The Stability of Competitive Metacommunities Is Insensitive to Dispersal Connectivity in a Fluctuating Environment	6
Front and Back Matter	6
Evolution of the G Matrix under Nonlinear Genotype-Phenotype Maps	6
SLiM 4: Multispecies Eco-Evolutionary Modeling	6
Sex Allocation in a Monogamous Bird: Advantaged Matrilines and Sons with Silver Spoons	6
Molting strategy influences vulnerability to climate change in migratory birds	6
Genetic Load, Eco-Evolutionary Feedback, and Extinction in Metapopulations	6
Forecasting Genomic Change with Time Series Sequence Data	6
Larval Density, Sex, and Allocation Hierarchy Affect Life History Trait Covariances in a Bean Beetle	6
Uncovering Cryptic Coevolution	6
Evolution of a Mosquito’s Hatching Behavior to Match Its Human-Provided Habitat	6
Fruit Size in Indo-Malayan Island Plants Is More Strongly Influenced by Filtering than by In Situ Evolution	6
A New Twist on an Old Story: Pollination and Seed Predation in Jadera haematoloma	6
Learned Sex Discrimination and the Evolution of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior	6
When Do Traits Tell More Than Species about a Metacommunity? A Synthesis across Ecosystems and Scales	6
Sequestration of Defenses against Predators Drives Specialized Host Plant Associations in Preadapted Milkweed Bugs (Heteroptera: Lygaeinae)	6
Fitness Costs of Female Competition Linked to Resource Defense and Relatedness of Competitors	6
Shifts in Mutation Bias Promote Mutators by Altering the Distribution of Fitness Effects	5
Dynamic Changes in Begging Signal Short-Term Information on Hunger and Need	5
Differential Stage-Specific Mortality as a Mechanism for Diversification	5
Front and Back Matter	5
Unequal Reproduction Early in a Social Transition: Insights from Invasive Wasps	5
The Effect of Brief or Prolonged Bouts of Winning or Losing Male-Male Contests on Plasticity in Sexually Selected Traits	5
Poles Apart: The Structure and Composition of the Bird Community in Bamboo in the Eastern Himalaya	5
Brood Parasites That Care: Alternative Nesting Tactics in a Subsocial Wasp	5
A disturbing view of life history evolution	5
Bayesian Prediction of Multivariate Ecology from Phenotypic Data Yields New Insights into the Diets of Extant and Extinct Taxa	5
High Juvenile Mortality Overwhelms Benefits of Mating Potential for Reproductive Fitness	5
Evolutionary Impact of Size-Selective Harvesting on Shoaling Behavior: Individual-Level Mechanisms and Possible Consequences for Natural and Fishing Mortality	5
Plumage Balances Camouflage and Thermoregulation in Horned Larks ( Eremophila alpestris )	5
Emission Rates of Species-Specific Volatiles Vary across Communities of Clarkia Species: Evidence for Multimodal Character Displacement	5
Scaling of Activity Space in Marine Organisms across Latitudinal Gradients	5
Repeating Historical Studies to Understand Functional Responses to Environmental Change	5
Evolutionary Lability of Sexual Selection and Its Implications for Speciation and Macroevolution	5
The evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation	5
Species Diversity and Habitat Fragmentation Per Se: The Influence of Local Extinctions and Species Clustering	5